and today my good buddy Matt is here

to try and make a little bit

of a different style of video.

So, this right here is an Intel NUC.

You may of caught a video we did recently

talking about a very unusual Nuc, but this is

a little bit more of a standard one

and at $400 your getting a core i5

your getting a thunderbolt port there's a lot to like.

Anyway so the plan is very simple this NUC is actually

pretty Hackintoshable this is a quad-core Core i5

now with these Nucs they don't come completely

ready to go out of the box, so we have everything

we need except for the RAM as well as the SSD

Matt has already installed that

but we have 16 Gigs of DDR4 RAM

as well as we have a 500GB SSD, so.

As far as putting that stuff together

it's really simple, where it's gonna' be a little

bit more difficult most likely

is you actually have to Hackintosh it.

- So with this particular model the Wi-Fi card

and Bluetooth card are not compatible with Mac OS.

- That's pretty common for Hackintosh

Most of the time that doesn't work.

- Unfortunately with this one,

it's actually soldered to the motherboard.

- That's the thing with Hackintosh is

most of the time you can get like 80% data

but usually your going to need like dongles

or your going to need like a USB DAC

or usually especially when it comes to Wi-Fi

just plug in a USB Wi-Fi card,

that's supported by MAC OS, but just to give a little

bit of a context here right, compared to a Mac mini

so if we got the Core-i3 version which is quad-core

so roughly equivalent 16 Gigs of RAM

is which what we have in here and then 512 Gigs SSD

the Mac mini would cost $1400 straight from Apple,

this all in, is what $600?

- $600, $650 tops for our configuration

depending on the spec of,

you know the brand of RAM and SSD you went with.

- The important thing is we can actually hook up

an external GPU to this guy so in theory

we're getting iMac level performance

for, a third the price, I mean we don't have a monitor but

- Yeah, yeah.

- So one of the things you do need

unless things have changed you do need a Mac

to do a lot of this setup right?

- Yeah, so you have to have an existing Mac

which, have here then you'll prep it with something

called UniBeast which will create a bootable USB drive

- [Austin] Which is right here already have it installed

- As well as some configuration things.

- You're definitely losing some things when you're

going with the Hackintosh but just considering

that this is smaller than a Mac mini it should be

roughly equivalent, and we're talking about something

that costs less than half the price

I think it might be worth the gamble

I'm just really curious to see how it all works.

First of all, shout-out to Quin, SnazzyQ.

He had a great video on, was this ?

- Exact model

- The exact model of the NUC, so yeah.

- His had less memory though.

- Well yeah obviously we had to be superior

we can't do a lamer version of a video

someones already done we had to

do a better version, otherwise it's stealing.

So if I fire this up it should start to boot right?

- Yeah it will boot into the Nucs splash screen first

and then it should go into the clover boot screen,

which is how we are tricking it.

- Damn that's the thing man, I love doing Hackintosh stuff

but like it's such a headache right,

like there are so many random

little issues that you run into

I mean it's cool and I think it's one of those things

where it's maybe not like a badge of honor for a nerd

like oh I built a computer I made a Hackintosh but

it's one of those things where you have to have

some patience you have to kinda' sorta' learn

how to do it and be ready to tinker on things right

cause' it will break.

So looks like we are into the language setup

this is slow process over USB 2.0

it literally took like 20 minutes to boot.

(vocalizing)

Oh here's a thing.

- [Matt] Reboot and select proper media boot device.

- So I'm actually going through here

this is recommending that we actually

format it as Mac OS extended as apposed to Apple file.

- Yeah

- Is that something we want to do?

- Let's try that again.

Alright so we figured out what the problem was

it was less the formatting that was the problem

but more that we didn't have the APFS driver for the SSD.

- So when we tried to boot it just didn't see it.

- [Matt] Because we're doing Mojave

it needed additional drivers.

- Which was literally we just had to drop it onto

the flash drive it saw everything it booted up

and now we are actually properly

installing everything onto the SSD.

- [Matt] Correct.

- So in theory in nine minutes we will have

a working copy of Mojave.

- We'll have a copy of Mojave,

with almost no working drivers.

- Okay it is day two and I think Matt has made progress

while I was not here, what's up?

- It's mostly working.

- Okay, so we see a Core i5 we see our 16 Gigs of DDR4

we also see our iris plus graphics.

So the cool thing is this Nuc does share the exact

same processor from the mid spec

Core i5 13" Macbook Pro.

Mind you no battery no screen and stuff

we're looking at $2200 for this

pretty much exact same performance,

and yet we got it for $600 and a couple sleepless nights

for Matt, so what is not working?

I see we're hooked up to ethernet, is the Wi-Fi not working?

- We do have an external Wi-Fi adapter

but it's currently not working, you can't actually

restart the computer right now.

- [Austin] So you have to turn it off

and manually turn it back on?

- Yeah, if you try and restart it, actually go in the

menu and restart it just freezes

so you have to hard restart it currently.

- [Austin] Do we have Gigpesh installed?

- [Matt] We do.

- Okay, cool let's give that a try.

For the most part we now have a Mac

that's up and running right now.

- Yeah, you could I mean if you're doing light tasks

you could totally be using this system.

- Oh wow that's really fast,

5020 on the single core

and 17838 on multicore so that's actually faster than the

13" Macbook Pro about 400 points higher

on the single thread and over 1000 points higher

on multi thread which kinda' makes sense because

the 13" MacBook even though it has the same processor

It's a thin, small MacBook,

so this has more cooling for sure.

This is a Gigabyte RX 580,

the 580 is one of the better supported cards on the Mac OS.

This is the exact same GPU you will find in for example

the 5k iMac and generally speaking we've used

this with Macs before and it works pretty well.

- Natively the 580 works in Mojave.

- It shows iris plus graphics,

so let's switch the HDMI over

and see if this actually works.

- When I tried this before it did not show me that

until I plugged this in.

- GPU is spinning, we have LED's, oh! Immediately.

- Immediately.

- Okay let's make sure this is actually showing up RX 580

so we have external GPU we have 16 Gigs of RAM 500 Gig SSD

this tiny little box, in the entire package

is less than a Mac mini

by a lot right?

- Yeah, yeah.

- And we're looking at, how much is the 580 cost right now?

It's like 400 bucks right?

- I'm not sure off the top of my head,

but it's a solid little box and it's cheap.

- This is exactly $400 and this is the higher end

eight Gig SKU, so for almost exactly $1000

we have the NUC, we have 16 Gigs of RAM

a 500 Gig super fast PCI SSD and we have a RX 580,

dude.

So that my friends is building the Nucintosh,

now really the only next thing we have to do is

put this side by side with an actual Mac mini

which costs much more and we even have GPU

and we will still be cheaper than a Mac mini.

Good job Matt, thanks for doing all the hard work

and letting me show up and what you doing?

Oh no.